Week off

So, Lucy and Andy have gone abroad to attend a friend's wedding and this week I'm not scheduled to be in because I said I would work at home to get the studio's branding done. On the thursday James called me at around half 12 asking if I wanted to help with some work I would get paid for. At the time I was actually busy visiting a friend but still had my macbook with me. So, I gladly accepted the job. I spent the next 6 hours collecting text and images to create a poster for a wedding company.

My job was actually to take an existing poster and add 'sale' to it. This should have been an easy task which wouldn't take very long but unfortunately James only had a jpeg. and couldn't find the Illustrator file that Lucy had created before so I recreated it exactly the same from scratch. This involved vectorising some parts and looking for the fonts which fitted the previous design:


(left old poster, right new poster I duplicated from old poster)

Afterwards the client explained that he didn't want the new poster identical to the previous one. I don't know whether it was just some misunderstanding between James and the client or the client not explaining properly what he wanted but either way I felt as if I had spent all this time making a poster for nothing. But I just got on with the job of altering the poster slightly so that it would please the client, in the end he wanted two versions of the poster as well:



I was then given another job by the same client. This was a completely different style to the previous one and involved coming up with a poster from scratch on my own. I was to use black and pink to show a classy sale poster. This was in for 9:30am the next morning but I decided it best if I finished it there and then because I was already in a design mode. Didn't get feedback until half 10 the next morning. Was told to change the photos so that they blended into the black background like it was fading into it which in my opinion would look extremely tack but that was what the client wanted and was used to so...I was doing this at speed because the deadline was very tight:


(left- my design, right-my design after making amendments they wanted)

Overall I felt this client's taste in design was a little old-fashioned and the time limit was a little tight and I felt a little pressurised, especially during the next morning. But still, this was a good experience for me.